Get ready to trip heart strings and rip fishnets! Now, "it’s time" for ETERNAL! Forget everything you ever knew about Butterfly Messiah! EBM decadence, the next challenge for the Gothic dance music enthusiast, has touched-down "for today" with ETERNAL. While Robert Davis and Joshua Harrington keep "the circle" pulsating with synth and percussion, Shannon Garson continues weaving lyrical elegance seamlessly through arrangements that will have you dancing all night long. The hyper-dance hit, "It’s Time" makes a MOST welcome addition to this full-length album. 12 tracks in all, and sorted nicely into an astral-strewn tri-fold digi-pak complete with spooky shadow-play imagery, and a 16-page lyric and additional images and artwork brochure. "Virtual" begs the adrenaline into your veins. Beneath the strobe light of "Falling Stars", an EBM marionette becomes the body of every care-free Klub kid. Fans who lament the decay of Switchblade Symphony will find fantastic the "Ascension" of BUTTERFLY MESSIAH! Open your arms, and open your heart to discover gothic dance dreams re-awakened by Garson’s enigmatic and fluttering vocal range. Industrial djs quickly warm up to "Counterstrike", an apocalyptic dance hit in the making. Get this treasured Digi-Pak dance collection now before your best friends beat you to it.

When BLC goes encore it goes encore for real: what I mean by that is that the second volume of their "Interbreeding II Industrial Mutation" is actually a double CD as well, so if EBM is what your doctor ordered you to get you in shape, here's your chance to get your fix!
Kubikzahl, Generated X-ed, Jerico One feat. Marc Heal, Hocico, The Pain Machinery, Implant, Things Outside The Skin, Injury (with a Pulse Legion Remix), Beta, Soul Circuit, The God Project, ESR, Diverje, Dioxyde, Type001, Xiphoid Process, Stark,
Void Kampf, Skoyz, Tactical Sekt, Agonoize, Angel Theory, Run Level Zero, The Thessalonian Dope Gods, Centyl, Severe Illusion, The Pain Machinery, More Machine than Man (remix by Syrian), Croc Shop, Infekktion, Thirteenth Exile, Liquefaction: quite impressive list, right? More reason to be impressed is that most tracks are brand new previously unreleased songs or exclusive compositions or versions or remixes or demo tracks etc...
Cover art work by graphic illustrator Wilhelm "Deaddreamer" Steiner.

I continue to be intrigued as I watch the talents of Robert, Shannon, and friends. From the first time I heard Butterfly Messiah I knew they had a latent talent that would grow in time to be a force worth reckoning. While Priestess got them a bit of international acclaim, their new release Eternal positions them right alongside some of the top talents of today. Their new album combines Shannon's 'ethereal' vocals with Robert's new upscaled EBM-styled Darkwave. This is quite a jump from previous works but the likes of which was seen on the DJ Program.01 digipak released September of 2002 on their label The Fossil Dungeon. Fans of the band's more esoteric side will also NOT be let down either. This disc is full of mindful wisdom from the well of consciousness. Neo-pagans will take easy note of "The Circle" but I think one of my favorites has to be "Falling Stars". Butterfly creates an easy fusion of esoteric concepts with various music styles including EBM, Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Ethereal, Synthpop, Trip Hop, Wave, Medieval etc.. and are a band definitely worth a 'continued watchful eye'! Also, one can tell that Butterfly Messiah is a project that appreciates it's fans as the CD package is full of band photos, lyrics, etc., something too many artists skimp on these days. While it's understandable that we all have tight budgets Butterfly Messiah & The Fossil Dungeon always do their best to create merchandise packages well worth buying. This is what all those MP3 traders are missing out on - the true ART of the entire conceptual realization of 'the work' as opposed to just non-visual electronic media files. I've always been one to love holding the CD in my hand and reading the lyrics with the CD and/or viewing the inlay artwork, photos, and/or graphics. This is definitely one of the best releases I've seen this year so far!

Starting out like nice-sounding power-noise, the "S.O.S. EP" (which is more like a full lenght album really) quickly turns into an EBM work based around skillfully crafted treated sounds, dancefloor-friendly electro-industrial rhythm structures and filtered vocals that follow the lead of the masters of the genre. Chicago based duo PTI has learned the lesson of the prioneers and, although their sound palette is not bad, they don't seem concerned with freshing things up (which of course seems to be a general trend). There are some good moments in the CD and, aside from some vocal performances I wouldn't be too happy about, it overall is a pretty good CD, that strives for a balance between melody and distortion. To add to the table are remixes by Assemblage 23, cut.rate.box. and Dubok. Full album expected later this year.

Totakeke is another great project of Frank Mokros(Synth-etik, Ativ). This one released on Frozen Empire Media. Coming in a slim jewel case this cd has 7 tracks, 2 of which a remixes of the title track by Imminent, and Klangstabil(antzen, MHZ). This cd starts off with a droning ambient soundscape and moves into a rythmic mixture of drum-n-bass, and idm. As each track unfolds the cd continues to have soft over-lying synths and droning backgrounds, which set it apart from the bombastic rythmic noise of synth-etik. Not as to say that the drums aren't present but up until the last track they are more subdued, giving a more relaxed feel to the cd. Moving in and out of generes, this cd is complex and highly enjoyable.